• 3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith – A UT-Austin law student was planning to create a gun with the 3D printer and put the resulting blueprints online, but the printer manufacturer canceled its lease, saying its device can’t be used to violate federal laws.

• Motorola reneges on Ice Cream Sandwich software update – Motorola had said owners of its Atrix 4G smartphone would get Android 4.0, but newly released chart shows it will be stuck with version 2.3. Motorola Mobility is now owned by Google, which controls the Android OS.

• Poor pre-launch showing plagues Windows 8 – Pre-launch installations of Windows 8 are at .33 percent of all systems running Windows. At this same point prior to Windows 7’s launch, the number was 1.64 percent.

• The Long Goodbye? – Despite protests to the contrary, Microsoft appears to be slowly pulling out of the online ad business.